"Money isn't always the best motivator. If you leave a $50 check after dinner with friends, you don't increase the probability of being invited back."

-- Yochai Benkler

#Dinner Quotes #Increase Quotes #Checks Quotes

“I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with a hook.”
“It seems like people are all the time making themselves themselves, but they don't really know it. You can only have true vision when you look behind. A person can slide so fast into being something they never really intended. I wonder if you can truly resurrect your own self.”
“In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.”

Source : "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.
“The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.”
“Yeah. Some people just don't understand when their facial hair starts to look ridiculous.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone.”
“The only reason I can hold up my head is because when He set me free He gave me my dignity back.”
“I like to write about love plus an obstacle. Not a really big obstacle; not too serious and not too funny. Just somewhere nicely in between - a combination of the two.”

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